For a short while, the government portal koronavirus.gov.hu was not available due to a web traffic overload attack initiated from an outside source, Csaba Dömötör, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stated on his Facebook account.

The National Infocommunications Provider and the National Institute for Cyber Security will investigate the circumstances of the attack, and after identifying the source they will file a report with the police.

“Whoever may be responsible for this attack, they must be aware that, beyond consequences under criminal law, there are human lives at stake,” Mr Dömötör’s Facebook account reads.

(MTI)